Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Steve WD4CFN's FB Mid-Tennessee SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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  Steve WD4CFN has built a FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver.  CW reception video appears above.  From his QRZ page:  " I also ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Radio Astronomy RFI from Starlink

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https://futurism.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-radio-signal-emissions
Sunday, June 15, 2025

A Nice Quick HW-101 Restoration Video

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  This video is almost enough to get me to work on my old HW-101.  Pete N6QW has been working on an HW-32A monobander. Some of the info in ...
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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Car Talk

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The video above is really a lot of fun.  We are approaching the 20th anniversary of the SolderSmoke Podcast.  Our first upload was August 21...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Britain's Secret Listeners

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Today Hack-A-Day has an unsually good report on Britain's Voluntary Interceptors. I was especially touched by the story of the guy who p...
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Monday, June 9, 2025

Rick W1DSP's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- Exploring the Rabbit Holes

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Thanks to Rick W1DSP for sending us his "proof of life" video.  It is indeed alive!  Congratulations Rick!  Welcome to the Hall of...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Phil W1PJE, Director of MIT's Haystack Observatory, visits SolderSmoke East, Talks Radio with N2CQR and KK4DAS

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We were very pleased that Phil W1PJE was able to visit yesterday. Phil is the Director of MIT's Haystack Observatory . He is very know...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

A FIRST! K1OA Contact with N2CQR -- All Homebrew with SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers on Both Ends

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At around 0630 EDT on June 7, 2025 I heard K1OA calling CQ on 7030 kHz CW. This was exactly where I had a crystal.  I called him, but he did...
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Friday, June 6, 2025

A Tale of "Ten Minute Transmitters" and "Tuna Tin Twos": N2CQR Goes Back to CW QRP!

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I nspired by K1OA and KA4KXX , I put the SolderSmoke DC receiver to work on the CW portion of 40 meters. At first I used a very (perhaps ov...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Alan Wolke W2AEW's Build of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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We were already very proud to put Alan Wolke W2AEW in our Hall of Fame .  But Alan put icing on the cake this morning by making his own vide...
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Ashish N6ASD's Beautiful SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- Built in Bangalore -- "This was such a fun project. This was my first direct conversion build, and I learned a lot along the way."

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Ashish N6ASD is a really good guy.  We started watching his projects when he was in San Francisco .  He does a lot of  fundamental radio bui...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Not a Toy! K1OA Making Contacts with the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver and a KA4KXX Transmitter

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T his goes to prove what we have been saying all along:  this receiver is not a toy!  It is capable of operating as part of a real 2-way ham...
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